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Home Front: Politix
With Two Republicans win California Gubernatorial Primary, Democrats plot to keep D in runoff
[AceOfSpades]
…new ballot initiative has been filed to repeal the state's top-two primary and return it to a party-based primary where voters like you would only vote for candidates in your own registered party”

The man behind this is Steve Maviglio, he's the former communications director for Governor Gray Davis

He's not some random nobody. Steve Maviglio a longtime Democratic insider, he’s a top Democrat operative

He filed paperwork with the state to change the rules of the game now that Democrats are losing

Keep in mind, this “Top 2” system is the same system that locked out Republicans for 15 years

But now that it’s going to lock Democrats out they’re turning to their rigged elections to maintain power and change the rules
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/18/2026 14:21 || Comments || Link || [1786 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Interesting that they would put forward a ballot initiative that would impact a concurrent election. It’s like an athlete starting a 5K and discovering that it has been changed to a 10k half way through.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/18/2026 14:53 Comments || Top||

#2  Calvin Ball
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/18/2026 14:59 Comments || Top||

#3  this initiative would require signatures to be on the ballot in Nov I don't think this could affect the 2026 election
Posted by: Lord Garth || 05/18/2026 17:11 Comments || Top||


RINO Bill Cassidy Loses Primary to Two Different Candidates, Getting Shut Out of the Run-Off
[AceaofSpades] Trump …'s now saying: ON TO MASSIE!

"His disloyalty to the man who got him elected is now a part of legend, and it's nice to see that his political career is OVER!" Trump wrote Saturday night on social media.

In backing Letlow against Cassidy, Trump achieved something he has not done yet in his extraordinary political career: defeat a senator from his own party in a primary. It came as he looks to unseat one of the biggest GOP mavericks in Congress -- Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie -- in a House primary Tuesday.

Trump was quick to draw a connection between Cassidy and Massie. In a Truth Social post early Sunday morning, Trump said Massie "is an even bigger insult to our Nation than" Cassidy and reiterated support for Massie's primary challenger, Ed Gallrein.
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/18/2026 13:54 || Comments || Link || [1796 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Cassidy would say that Trump is being petty. Very few of the voters agree with him. In a jungle primary his few votes likely came from Dems that considered him an ally.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/18/2026 14:47 Comments || Top||

#2  Why won't RINO just form a Liberal Party, it should at least attract disenfranchised old school, aka non-Marxists, Donks.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/18/2026 15:01 Comments || Top||

#3  P2K that would keep the Donks out of power and they can't allow that.
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/18/2026 16:42 Comments || Top||


Stolen Valor: Wes Moore's Afghanistan story starts to unravel
[Fox Baltimore via AOSHQ] In a commencement speech at Valley Forge Military Academy on May 9, Gov. Wes Moore told graduates the academy had taught them "something that I wish more people in this society understood — that we will not lie, cheat, nor steal, nor tolerate those that do."

For two decades, Moore’s own accounts of his Army service and Afghanistan deployment have tested whether he lives by that standard.

In an April 2014 interview with the USO’s magazine"On Patrol," Moore was asked about his duties in Afghanistan. "I was an infantry officer, military police officer and then became special ops when I joined the 82nd Airborne Division," Moore said.

Based on Army records, his answer was not true.

Those records show Moore was not an infantry officer, was not qualified in any special operations field and did not deploy to Afghanistan to perform either role.
Posted by: Frank G || 05/18/2026 04:59 || Comments || Link || [1787 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  The real story is why thee people can blatantly lie for years and no one in "the news" bothers to check (or print) their lies.
Posted by: Mercutio || 05/18/2026 8:02 Comments || Top||

#2  His resume is Bidenesque, which is not optimal. Bye, Wes.
Posted by: Frank G || 05/18/2026 8:45 Comments || Top||

#3  Moore has made other resume enhancements.

Claimed Masters Degree at Oxford but his thesis does not seem to exist.

Also claimed to have been inducted into the Maryland Sports Hall of Fame but no such institution exists.

Notwithstanding this, he has governed closer to the middle than people feared. Given that the Dems have huge majorities in both houses of the legislature, things could have been worse.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 05/18/2026 10:12 Comments || Top||

#4  Also claimed to have been inducted into the Maryland Sports Hall of Fame but no such institution exists.

Maybe that's just a trophy wall in somebody's basement bar area.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 05/18/2026 10:21 Comments || Top||

#5  No one is doing anything because he is BLACK... He is bait for every leftist hate machine out there looking to call anyone who questions it a racist KKK member... The truth...
Posted by: 49 Pan || 05/18/2026 10:56 Comments || Top||

#6  Perhaps he simply confused Special Forces with Special Service (handing out basketballs) at the gym.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/18/2026 12:24 Comments || Top||

#7  He was part of the very special forces.
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/18/2026 12:43 Comments || Top||

#8  well he actually was in Afghanistan for about 7 months with the 82nd Airborne

We do not have detail on what his actual assignments during that time
Posted by: Lord Garth || 05/18/2026 14:06 Comments || Top||

#9  ^^^ I'm guessing cook.
Posted by: Chris || 05/18/2026 14:31 Comments || Top||

#10  Blumenthal and Walz had some military claims that didn’t match up. It’s not a black thing. More like a Dem thing. The missing thesis is pretty extreme.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/18/2026 14:39 Comments || Top||

#11  ^Missing instead of plagiarism?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 05/18/2026 14:42 Comments || Top||

#12  #8 - read further down:
That means Moore’s official 6 months and 27 days in Afghanistan was likely closer to 5 months and 27 days —and perhaps less.
Posted by: Frank G || 05/18/2026 17:48 Comments || Top||

#13  As the sole surviving veteran of the Battle of the Little Big Horn, Mr Moores behavior is highly offensive to me.
Posted by: Knuckles Grundy || 05/18/2026 19:03 Comments || Top||


Actual pushback: Top Texas Democrat won't campaign with candidate who wants ‘prison for American Zionists'
[IsraelTimes] US Senate candidate James Talarico says no place for ’antisemitic rhetoric’; campaign confirms he won’t stump for Maureen Galindo, who rants about ’Zionist billionaires, pedophiles,’ if she wins run-off

More America politics from the Times of Israel:
Tennessee Rep. Steve Cohen won’t seek reelection after GOP carved up his district

Democrat who has served majority-Black Memphis area in US Congress since 2006 slams hardline Republican congressman who referred to him as ’an old, white Jewish guy’
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/18/2026 03:05 || Comments || Link || [1774 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Being the most prominent Democrat in Texas is like being the tallest midget in the circus.
Posted by: EMS Artifact || 05/18/2026 8:28 Comments || Top||

#2  NB Steve Cohen is white. The people calling Trunk redistricting 'racists' are the same ones who picked a AWLF over a black Trunk candidate in Virginia.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/18/2026 9:46 Comments || Top||

#3  The people calling Trunk redistricting 'racists' are the same ones who picked a AWLF over a black Trunk candidate in Virginia.

She was a *terrible* candidate. "Fundamentally non-serious" and anti-Trump--the Republican party owns that defeat.
Posted by: Crusader || 05/18/2026 10:39 Comments || Top||



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